Day: August 14, 2024

Karen Lewis, a therapist in Washington, D.C., talks with a lot of frustrated single people—and she likes to propose that...

The first time Angel Giuffria saw the logo on her bionic hand, she felt a sense of pride. She was...

A basic fact of thermodynamics is coming to haunt every foot of train track in the United States. Heat makes...

In his beguiling poem “Connoisseur of Chaos,” Wallace Stevens recalls a past era when religion was meant to explain everything,...

The first film I watched through my fingers this year was not Longlegsor The Watchers—or anything close to a horror...

The administrations of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden have all shared one common foreign-policy desire: to get out...

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